What is risk?

This is what happens when I mix my day job with my night job

– A video answering the question, “What is risk?”

Some of you already know that I’m an engineer, but you mightn’t realise that my current job is as a risk manager. Last week I thought it would be fun to fuse my engineering work with my cartooning to see what would happen. And this is my modest result. Let’s call it a fun 101 introduction into the concept of risk.

So humour me a bit here and click the image below to watch on youTube and then …

I remember reading that there was an ancient Greek definition of courage that defined it as being in the middle between foolhardiness and cowardice. There is a lot of talk about how we need more risk takers. At the same time, a lot people in prison are or were risk takers. I like your holistic approach for understanding risk. My work is project-based so understanding risk is essential. By the way, there is an article by Malcolm Gladwell that is risk-related: http://gladwell.com/the-sure-thing/